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Author to Discuss Works at Summers Memorial Lecture April 11 |
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Deanna Lytle |
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Apr 9, 2003 |
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| Gary Soto |
Poet, author and playwright Gary Soto will read and comment on his works on Friday, April 11, at 4 p.m. in Doermann Theater.
Soto is the author of 10 poetry collections for adults, including New and Selected Poems, a 1995 finalist for the Los Angeles Times Award and the National Book Award. He has written biographies and picture books, as well as dabbled in the performing arts with the libretto to the opera “Nerdlandia” for the Los Angeles Opera and the play “Novio Boy.”
Soto has received the California Library Association’s John and Patricia Award, the Author-Illustrator Civil Rights Award from the National Education Association, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Soto also serves as the Young Person’s Ambassador for the United Farm Workers of America and California Rural Legal Assistance.
His appearance is part of the 14th annual Richard M. Summers Memorial Lecture, which brings a distinguished writer, literary scholar or critic to speak on literature and its relationship to language or art. The lecture is funded by an endowment established by Marie Summers to honor her son, Richard Summers, who was a member of the English department from 1966 until his death in 1988.
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| Sarah Adams, a senior in the College of Education, used the Vandercook proofing press to handprint pages of a special edition of Gary Soto's Gil Mendez and the Metaphysics of a Blimp as Timothy Geiger, associate professor of English, supervises. |
To commemorate Soto’s reading, Timothy Geiger, associate professor of English, and his Art and Process of the Book class are printing a limited edition letterpress chapbook by the author titled Gil Mendez and the Metaphysics of a Blimp. "It is a book of poetry, handprinted on a Vandercook proofing press, and hand-bound by the students in the class using Perpetua hand-set lead types on superfine letterpress text paper, and hand-sewn and bound between paper in an edition of 150 copies," Geiger said. Copies of the signed limited edition book will be for sale at the reading.
A reception and book signing will follow the free, public lecture.
For more information, call the UT English department at 419.530.2318.
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